Medievel Church

This order was extremely disciplined, they ate a simple diet and renounced worldly goods including church decorations.

• Franciscan

• Dominican

• Cistercian

Monks took a vow of poverty and called for a return to the simplicity of the early church.

• Cistercian

• Franciscan

• Dominican

A founding purpose was to defend the catholic church against heresy.

• Cistercian

• Franciscan

• Dominican

As the popes' power grew, they established control of areas in central Italy that came to be known as

• nation-states

• investitures

• papal states

The Investiture Controversy was a power struggle between King Henry IV of Germany and

• Dominic de Guzmán.

• Francis of Assisi.

• Pope Gregory VII.

Men who join a religious order are called monks and live in monasteries; women who join a religious order

• are also called monks and also live in monasteries.

• are called nuns and live in convents.

• must live at home, because there are no religious houses for women.

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux believed that a monk should be

• a "soldier of Christ."

• a good family man.

• "God's vicar on earth."

Many faithful Church followers felt that the harsh methods of the Inquisition were justified in order to save the souls of

• heretics.

• vassals.

• vassals.

Ordinary people prayed to saints because

• they believed saints could intervene directly with God in their favor.

• they loved the pictures of saints they saw in their churches.

• they did not wish to approach God himself with their requests.

were considered worthy of worship because they were believed to provide a link between the earthly world and God.

• interdict

• sacrament

• relic